The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

VERY rigid Sunday-observance law was
passed by the Missouri Legislature, and the
police of st Louis are preparing for it's strict
enforcement 1t prohibits the opening of sa-
looms, billiard-rooms, theaters bowling alleys,
beer-gardens, and base-ba grounds on Sun
day. The saloons have combined to fight the
law, and will make test case to determine its
constitutionality.
LAST weeks changes in the visible supply
OF grain in this country, says n Chicago dis
patch, show decrease i'll wheat OF e94 005
bushels in corn of 745, 1872 bushels, and in
oats of Ia, CSC bushels. The present stock Of
wheat aggregates Al, 2l7, 60J bushels, of corn
IL, 77o,630 bushels, and of oats 3,0l2,5 47
bushels
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected for a
submarine cable to be laid from Vancouver TO
Australia by way of the Sandwich and FIJI
Islands. The line will cost 10000 600, and
an annual subsidy of $500 600 has been &C.
cured from the Canadian, Hawaiian, and
Australian governments.
The National Association of Master Plumb
ers in session at Chicago, elected John Byrns,
of New York, President for the ensuing year,
and adjourned to meet In Boston next June.
The steam-barge p. IL Walker, of San
dusky, Ohio, was wrecked in squall on
Lake Erie, not far from Cleveland, and eight
persons were drowned The names of the
drowned are: Mrs. l. G.. Gil espie, wife of
the master; Alphos and Jennie Gillespie, the
masters children; Engineer Peter Crimes of
Cleveland; Fireman John Petersen; Wheel
man Gust Shaffer, of Sandusky, Ohio; Deck
hand Peter Powley, of Lighthouse Station,
Ohio; Stewardess Kate Powley, wife of Peter.
A MONTREAL special says: "a G. LANCE,
who was in the employ of /. g. Marson, Of
Muskegon, Mich, and who fled two years ago
with $4,000 has been captured. LANCE
found employment here, and his en-
ployer, having been told of his previ-
GUS record, arranged for his return to the
United States. He sent him to Coaticooke os-
tensibly on business, and when he arrived
there he was told that his man lived about
ten miles in the country. He then accepted
an offer to be driven to see the man, and was
driven over the line, where he was arrested
and taken to Island Pond"
AT the convention of the Patriotic Sons of
America, in Chicago resolutions were adopt
ed against permitting foreign socialists,
anarchists, OF nlilllsls 10 lulLu III
and against alien land-ownership. George b.
Smith, OF Chicago, was elected President
DUN's weekly trade review shows that the
collapse of the wheat deal and consequent
failures have caused a wide disturbance, but
general reports OF business at nearly all points
al highly encouraging and the increasing
prospect of good crops adds to the prevail
ing confidence Large Treasury disburse-
ments are close at hand and viii relieve any
temporary monetary stringency. There were
197 failures for the week, against 2l3 last
week Dun & Co., in their weekly review OF
the commercial and financial outlook, say:
Collections are generally fair or good, and
the volume Of business large for the season.
The dry goods trade is comparatively inactive,
usual at this period. but considerable
/ movement after July l is anticipated. Men
WOODEN goods are decidedly dull. but in dress
! goods aud fiannels the trade is fair. COttons
| are unc hanged, in the main, but print cloths
were quoted ut Si.lj with large sales. The
liquidati i'll cotton proceeds slowly, but prices
] have declined % cents, for the week. Wheat has
] fallen about cents. though partial corner in
June still makes quotations here points or
| more above those TOR July. The iron market
| awaits the outcome of the labor contests.
! lMilroad building seems T. have been checked
| Il little, but the present demand for most iron
and steel products Rt ems Letter. Other labor
! contests are disappearing. Real estate at the
West IL still unusually active, and although
the bloom is off the boom, so to speak visible
| reaction in prices is TO be expected at present